gold is an ELF linker. It is intended to have complete support for ELF
and to run as fast as possible on modern systems. For normal use it is
a drop-in replacement for the older GNU linker.
The existing GNU linker manual is intended to be accurate
documentation for features which gold supports. gold supports
most of the features of the GNU linker for ELF targets. Notable
omissions--features of the GNU linker not currently supported in
gold--are: * MEMORY regions in linker scripts
* MRI compatible linker scripts
* linker map files (-M, -Map)
* cross-reference reports (--cref)
* linker garbage collection (--gc-sections)
* position independent executables (-pie)
* various other minor options
Authors:
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Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>
Craig Silverstein <csilvers@google.com>
Andrew Chatham